Amazon Prime Day Puts Pressure On Other Retailers

Shoppers in the USA and elsewhere in the world are struggling to access e-commerce giant Amazon's website as one of its biggest annual sales, Prime Day, got underway.

The global company that sells everything (except decaf Nescafe Azera - sort it out, lads) started giving intermittent 404 messages at the start of the U.S. sale saying "something went wrong at our end".

In the United States, advocacy groups are planning a series of consumer rallies outside of Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market locations to protest the sale of Nazi, confederate, and white nationalist merchandise sold through Amazon's marketplace of third-party sellers.

The next-largest online retailer, eBay (EBAY), has just 6.6 percent of online sales. It said deliveries would be unaffected. Unions in Spain said most of the company's 2,000 permanent staff there were on a three-day strike on Tuesday. "But at the same time, these strikes create a moment for consumers to pause and say, 'What's happening here?" We've tested both Siri and Alexa devices to find out which is the best for you.

He and others pointed to Walmart, Amazon's largest competitor, as a cautionary tale. "The discounted prices on those make them nearly casual pickups on the way to the checkout counter".

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